Domain Name Giveaway - NameCheap

Pete Prestipino — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:00:00 GMT

Domain name registration provider NameCheap is launching another of its popular trivia contests.

What's unique about the contest is that it's held on Twitter - yes, Twitter. If participants sign up for Twitter, follow @NameCheap, and set up their NameCheap account, they can win domain names automatically by answering Twitter trivia.

NameCheap will ask a question every hour on the hour from March 10 to March 24. The first participant to answer each question correctly as well as two at random will be able to register domains for free. The two players who answer the most questions correctly as well as one lucky player at random will win Dell Inspiron Minis worth $500.

NameCheap did a similar promotion over the Christmas holiday, which generated a good amount of attention.

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Firefox With 20% Market Share In November (2008)

Pete Prestipino — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:02:00 GMT

Net Applications reports that for the first time ever, the Firefox browser exceeded a 20% share for a full month. Microsoft's IE still led the way with 69.77%. Firefox at 20.78% was followed by Safari (7.13%), Chrome (0.83%) and Opera (0.71%) for the top five browsers.

According to Mozilla CEO John Lilly, ""Reaching 20 percent worldwide market share is a significant milestone for Firefox and Mozilla. It's a huge achievement by the global Mozilla community, one that just a few years ago most would have considered impossible. The open web is more vibrant than ever, and the thousands of Mozilla contributors around the world have played a major role in making it that way."

Net Applications analysis highlights four potential reasons for the increase, including the U.S. election (usage increased in the days surrounding November 4), Thanksgiving (Firefox share increase starting on the 26th into the next month), extra weekend days (November had ten weekend days instead of the average 8.57), and higher unemployment.

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Domain Name Giveaway - NameCheap

Firefox With 20% Market Share In November (2008)